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Harald
BRAUN

Reader in European History (1300-1700)

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I studied History, Politics, and German Language and Literature at Heidelberg University, Germany, before completing a D.Phil. in Modern History at Oxford University. I joined the Department of History at Liverpool in 2004, after holding postdoctoral fellowships and temporary lectureships at Oxford, King's College London and the London School of Economics.

I am a historian of late medieval and early modern political culture with an emphasis on the Iberian world (c.1400 - c.1700). My research joins the histories of political thought and culture with the histories of violence and emotion. I am interested in how knowledge - such as legal, theological, scientific or historical knowledge - relates to political expertise, decision-making and practice. Currently, I am working on the dynamics of massacre in the early modern and modern world. I am focusing on the (self-)perception of perpetrators of mass killings and on the ways in which complex cultural norms shaped the exercise and experience of violence. I also have a growing interest in ideas about societal change and alternative futures as expressed, for instance, in early modern and modern utopian and dystopian texts.

I am the founding editor and co-editor (with Emily Michelson, University of St Andrews) of 'Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge', the flagship book series of the Society for Renaissance Studies (www.rensoc.org). I am also the founding editor (with Pedro Cardim, Universidad Nova de Lisboa) of 'Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions' (Routledge), a new book series publishing outstanding research in the early modern Iberian World that takes a comparative and global perspective.